Established in 1987, the NAB Crystal Radio Awards bring national recognition to radio stations for their year-round commitment to serving communities. A panel of judges representing the broadcast industry and community service organizations review applications and select 50 finalists and 10 winners.
Cox Media Group (CMG) will continue to be getting cross-platform viewership measurement data and advanced audience insights from a company that seeks to vigorously compete against dominant competitor Nielsen.
What do a community radio station that broadcasts "a diverse and vibrant program schedule" to rural Southeast Alaska and a public broadcast service in one of America's largest markets have in common? Each are receiving a significant sum of money from CPB to upgrade their equipment to provide enhanced emergency alerting.
The strike price, says Audacy Inc., is $20 per share. What will the company that sees a majority stake held by Soros Fund Management do with the proceeds? The additional equity capital will be used to repay existing debt, it says.
A new exclusive partnership is in place that will make Westwood One, the national radio arm of publicly traded Cumulus Media, the lone syndicator and distributor of one of the nation's leading sports talk-focused radio programs. This will see a big change to the time period offered to stations for the three-hour show.
Two Hubbard Broadcasting FM radio stations serving Chicago now have a new VP of Brand and Content, an individual that will oversee programming for the properties. He is inbound from Cox Media Group, where he was a Sr. VP of Audience and Programming, directing the company's on-air and digital content strategy.
She spent more than 10 years leading "complex telecommunications transactions" as Senior Principal Corporate Counsel in Mergers and Acquisitions at SBA Communications Corp. Now, she's joining a law firm that is home to David Oxenford and Davina Sashkin.
He most recently served as VP of Strategy and Acquisitions at A+E Networks, where he spent the past 11 years shaping the networks’ programming and content acquisition strategy. Starting today, he's the new SVP of Programming for The E.W. Scripps Co.
Veteran journalist Chris Cuomo will be staying a little longer at the MVPD-distributed news and political talk network owned by Nexstar Media Group, thanks to a fresh multi-year agreement announced on Monday.
Both AM and FM stations continue to demonstrate their unmatched ability to engage U.S. Hispanic audiences at scale. And, as Latinos are projected to account for 71% of U.S. population growth between 2022 and 2031, there's no better time than now to target the Spanish-speaking radio listener. That's according to a new Hispanic Radio Alliance report produced with Nielsen.
Pippin Technical Service (PTS) will introduce Dielectric’s antenna and RF systems to a customer base across the provinces, with Dielectric initially represented in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon and Northwest Territories.
Live Media Group, a Columbus, Ohio-based live broadcast product manufacturer and event production specialist, has appointed a former NEP Group leader to serve as Senior Vice President of Internal Operations, starting with the new year.
Full-service systems integrator, consultant, and manufacturer’s representative for broadcast media DNAV has launched a broadcast monitoring service designed to remotely connect the company’s field services team to broadcast facilities via its self-architected cloud based network operations center (NOC).
The standards body for all 5G standards has approved interleaving, giving it a potentially big boost. That's a big deal for broadcast television station owners who aren't keen on ATSC 3.0, says "SuperFrank" Copsidas, the low-power TV entrepreneur championing "5GB" in the U.S.
Gray Media, the company that recently rebranded from Gray Television, is saluting two long-time local broadcast television leaders, each of who are retiring at the end of 2024. One is in the Peach State, while the other is in the Palmetto State.
AI-focused technology company Veritone Inc. has earned a multi-year contract extension agreement with CBS News, allowing the Paramount Global unit continued access to products and services it has been using while expanding the partnership in a notable way.
The flagship station of the Atlanta Hawks Radio Network won't be changing anytime soon, thanks to an extension of a multi-year relationship between the NBA franchise and the audio content creation and distribution company that is today majority-owned by Soros Fund Management.
With advertising revenue set to top $100 billion this year, and a global advertising audience of 2.2 billion, Mark Zuckerberg's creation is both the most-populous and best-monetized social media platform in the world. Is there a learning lesson here for broadcast media?
A Class B AM radio station with a 5kw directional daytime signal from two towers and a 4.5kw nighttime signals from 4 towers serving the Lansing, Mich., area, is being sold by Christian Broadcasting System Ltd. The buyer is a bigger broadcast ministry, with an office located in nearby Ann Arbor, Mich.
Want to capture young Americans between the ages of 13 and 17? Being relevant on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat may be essential for your broadcast media properties, a newly released analysis from Pew Research Center concludes.
